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Article: Red Hat Buy NOCpulse for the Red Hat Network.
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- Linux Gram
- Article date:
- October 14, 2002
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Red Hat has confirmed reports that it has bought privately held systems managementhouse NOCpulse Inc for its provisioning and its real-time end-to-end monitoringabilities. Ironically the start-up, whose technology will be merged into the strategicRed Hat Network scheme, the company's ace-in-the-hole in case operating systemsbecome totally commoditized, is a Microsoft partner, capable of riding herd onWindows and most brands of Unix as well as Linux
Red Hat VP of marketing Mark de Visser said Red Hat has been tracking the two- year-old company for the last year and a half. He indicated Red Hat was delayingformal announcement of the acquisition pending gussying up ...